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Chase County Obituaries
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Althouse, Fred
Fred Althouse, an aged inmate of the Chase county poor farm at Elmdale, died last Friday Jan. 10th, 1919 after only a very brief illness
The deceased who had been an innate of the county farm here for nearly twelve years was more than eighty years of age and it was generally believed from statements he had made that he had no living relatives.
However, a search of his personal effects by Superintendent Wm Crouch, of the county farm, has revealed the fact that according to letters found, he had a wife and three daughters living in Chicago, Ill.
The latest of these letters which was written about nine years ago, gives the name of one daughter as Mrs. Anna Jones and also gives a street address in Chicago. Other information in the letters shows that at that time his wife and two unmarried daughters were living.
Some years after Mr. Althouse became an inmate of the county farm he received several hundred dollars which was left at the death of a brother and for some time following that he left this county but ame back again and asked admission to the county farm. Little was ever learned of his personal history, although it was known that he was a carpenter by trade and that he came west from Chicago.
He was buried in Prairie Grove Cemetery west of this city last Sunday afternoon, January 12th, 1919
Chase County Leader-News, Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, Jan 10, 1919.,
by your Chase County Host, Lorna Marvin.
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